America Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas…

— Don DeLillo

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its…

— Jean De La Bruyère

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit…

— Dar Williams

“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they…

— Albert Camus

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we…

— Compay Segundo

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson